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J. F. LOI'TUS &E. B. WILLIAMS. COMBINATION ICE PICK.

No. 476,052. Patented May 31, 1892.

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JAMES F. LOFTUS AND EBEN BANOROFT TVILLIAMS, OF THORNDIKE,MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINATION ICE-PICK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,052, dated May 31,1892.

Application filed September 28, 1891. Serial No. 407,024:- (No model.\

To a. whom it may concern.-

Beit known that we, JAMES F. LOFTUS and EBEN BANCROFT WILLIAMs, ofThorndike, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and Improved Combination Ice-Pick, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to improvements in ice-picks; and its object is toproduce a simple and effective device which maybe quickly adjusted so asto break the ice into small pieces, split it, or shave it and which willoperate very rapidly when used to perform any work of the characterdescribed.

To this end our invention consists in certain features of constructionand combinations of parts, which will be hereinafterdescribed andclaimed.

Reference is to behad to theaccompanying drawings, forming apart of thisspecification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the views.

Figurel isa broken vertical section of the tool on the line 1 1 in Fig.2, and Fig. 2 is a broken plan View of the device.

The pick is provided with a head 10, which has centrally on its upperside a socket 11, adapted to receive a handle 12, and which has fittedto its top surface a plate 13, which plate has a central aperture toallow it to tit on over the handle-socket, and the plate is secured tothe head by means of bolts 14 and thumb-nuts 15, the bolts having theirheads countersunk in the head of the pick, as shown in Fig. 1. The plate13 is provided with slots 16, through which the fastening bolts 14extend, and these slots permit the plate to be adjusted so as to coverthe picks or permit them to be withdrawn through the head, as describedbelow. The plate 13 is also provided with a series of holes 17, adaptedto register with the picks 18, which picks project downward through thehead 10 and are preferably provided with squared points.

plate 13 the holes 17 may be made to register with the picks 18, so thatthe latter may be withdrawn through the holes, and the plate may also beadjusted so that the heads of the picks will rest against it and theplate will form a secure backing for the picks. Both the head 10 and theplate 13 are iiattened on one side, as shown at 19 in Fig. 2, and thehead is recessed opp'osite'this flattened portion, as shown at 20,to'providc for the fastening of the knife or plane 21, which is boltedto the head by a bolt 22 and which projects tangentially from theflattened portion of the head.

The tool is used as follows: If the ice is to be broken into smallpieces, the picks .18 are inserted in the head 10 and held therein themanner described, and the operator then grasps the handle 12 and strikesthe picks downward repeatedly upon the ice until it is chopped to thedesired degree of fineness. If the ice is to be split, several of thepicks 18 are removed and the picks are arranged in line in the head 10,as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, and they will then split the ice byforcing them downward upon the same. Then the tool is to be used toshave the ice, the flat side 19 of the head is pushed repeatedlydownward over one side of the ice, so as to bring the knife 21. incontact therewith.

It will be understood that the tool may be provided with any desirednumber of picks and that they may be given any desired shape. The toolmay be quickly adjusted and it works perfectly for either of thepurposes described.

Having thus-fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent-' 1. A tool of the character described,comprising a head having a handle thereon, a series of removable picksheld in the head, and a movable plate mounted on the head, said platehaving holes adapted to register with the picks, substantially asdescribed.

2. A tool of the character described, comprising a head having a handledsocket on its upper side, aseries of movable picks extending verticallythrough the head, a movable plate mounted upon the head and having holesto register with the picks, said plates having, also, slots therein, andfastening-bolts head and extending tangentially therefrom, extendingthrough the head and the slots in substantially as described.

the plate, substantially as described. JAMES F. LOFTUS.

3. A tool of the character described, com- EBEN BANCROFT WILLIAMS. 5prising a head having a suitable handle and WVitnesses: having aflattened side and a knife secured XVILLIAM XV. LEAOH,

within a recess in the flattened side of the CHARLES L. GARDNER.

